Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your statement that Communist gunners are so expert that they can fire 25 rounds per minute from 82-mm. mortars [March 15] seems a bit farfetched. Exceeding eight or ten rounds per minute is inviting the weapon to melt and ornament your homemade sandals with white-hot metal. Also, your reference to the fine quality of the AK-47 is somewhat discolored. Not only does the AK-47 overheat rapidly, as you stated, it also jams twice as fast as any U.S. weapon, including the M16, because of the cheap stamp ing of the gas cylinder. You mention that...
With one on the weapon, that gives him a total of 120 rounds. By comparison, using two universal ammo pouches and a ten-magazine bandoleer, I can carry 480 of M-16 ammunition very comfortably. After almost three years in Viet Nam, I have yet to find one piece of Communist-manufactured equipment that would meet the standards of the free-world forces in Viet...
...water on its way into battle. At a shooting gallery, more kids lined up for electronic target practice with Army rifles ranging from the .58-cal. Civil War "Zouave" to the M16, or tried to knock out miniature moving tanks with a fixed "Dragon" antitank missile launcher, the weapon that will replace the present 90-mm. recoilless rifle...
...decides, of course, to take the second alternative. He is imperious and gay, kindly and cruel-and he knows his enemy. Yet his special mixture of idealism and cynicism makes a poor weapon against the greed, ignorance and envy of his political foes. His subjects look upon him as a god, and soon, the reformer begins to see himself that way too. It is the beginning of his doom...
Police are seeking the murderer from a description provided by an unidentified witness. They are also working with fingerprints found in the victim's apartment. No murder weapon has been found...